Peter Sutherland, former United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration and Development, is former Director General of the World Trade Organization, EU Commissioner for Competition, and Attorney General of Ireland.

Now 40+ years in the oil and energy industry and working with leading economists and business leaders, unfortunately Europeans will come to the reality as fellow Americans that the world is riddled with corruption and self-serving politicians as we have seen by the administration of aBarack Hussein Obama and good 'ol Ms. Hillary and her willingness to prostitute Judeo-Christian values and the American Constitution by sharing confidential if not proprietary emails with the world to line the coffers of the Clinton Foundation.

We are all headed to global conflagration as War looms ahead for without American leadership whether you like to hear it or NOT,We will see far much more strife, far much more destabilization of the already hot Middle East as the oven is hot to assure the bread bakes and expansionism by the Chinese and the Russians and so on and so forth, instead of retaining borders and demanding that lawmakers enforce laws and immigration is strictly adhered to, the refugee problem in Europe and the open borders of the US and the failure by the present oval office to enforce laws, well, folks...hold on to your hat as the ride from here on in, arduous at best for most and I would say that in my oil industry and the supply of such products, prices again to rise and a world again riddled with such corruption that we all await the return of Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg to lead Germany and the EU and more and more chants of ousting those with illegal entry will be heard and given the increased instability of Turkey as well, War looms ahead! Be prepared....

There is not a legal problem with refugees, they are defined in law. There is a problem with economic migrants would make up an estimated 50% of the current influx. The criteria with refugee status is precise and the fact somebody is from a state with war present does not mean they are automatically a refugee

Like it or not there is a problem with refugee employment. The most recent figures from Germany indicate 1/3rd are likely to be employable in a industrial workplace. The rest face the risk of being sidelined

The economic argument for migrants to assist in offsetting the demographic problem in Europe is also somewhat thin when there is the current level of unemployment particularly with youth and particularly in the South of the EU.

There is also the issue of preferential treatment of refugees if it is to occur, which has been proposed at one time or another. This is hardly likely to help those disadvantaged natives of the EU and will cause a backlash

Furthermore there appears to be a practical threashold to the number of migrants who can be absorbed without major negative social impact and this looks to be in the region of 0.4% of population p.a.. This also defines that the EU depending on the location cannot absorb migrants rapidly to offset its demographic problem

Until there is a pragmatic discussion of the way to address the issues the problem will not go away. There will remain resistance to taking immigrants when the cost burden becomes more obvious

In the longterm Africa is likely to be a bigger problem than the ME. The pressure will continue

Pay to stay away is likely to run into problems. Merkels handling of things so far has been a unmitigated disaster and made the situation for genuine refugess worse not better

The current problem for Europe is halved if economic migrants are stopped

You cannot control migration unless you control your borders. You cannot control your borders by subcontracting that to a different state with human rights questions

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